"There are certain things that we take for……" — Isabel Wilkerson
"There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?"
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Isabel Wilkerson
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12 Quotes by Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson has 12 quotes on this site.
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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the…
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait...…
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for…
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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
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Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone…
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was…
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It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black…
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left…
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That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned…
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living…
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